Disgraced chef
Paula Deen could find a sympathetic ear in another celebrity who has experienced
public shame:
Martha Stewart.

The homemaking expert — who rebuilt her career after serving five months in prison in 2004 for
her role in an insider-trading scandal — said during the Wednesday episode of
Watch What Happens: Live on Bravo: “I feel sorry for Paula Deen. She’s a public figure,
and I know you have to be extremely careful being a public figure.”

“I don’t really want to say if I agree with it or not,” she said. “I just feel that you really
have to watch yourself — especially in this day and age, with cameras all over you and Google and
records. I mean, what I just said — that’ll be there forever.”

Deen, meanwhile, is still facing the fallout from her confession during a deposition in a
lawsuit filed against her by a former employee. Joining the list of sponsors that have dropped her
are Target, the Home Depot and drugmaker Novo Nordisk.